I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of beauty.
EDGAR ALLAN POEThat man is not truly brave who is afraid either to seem or to be, when it suits him, a coward.
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Never to suffer would never to have been blessed.
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The fury of a demon instantly possessed me. I knew myself no longer. My original soul seemed, at once, to take its flight from my body; and a more than fiendish malevolence, gin-nurtured, thrilled every fibre of my frame.
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Even in the grave, all is not lost.
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There are chords in the hearts of the most reckless which cannot be touched without emotion.”
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And all I loved, I loved alone.
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To die laughing must be the most glorious of all glorious deaths!
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The death of a beautiful woman is, unquestionably, the most poetical topic in the world.
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Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.
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Take thy beak from out my heart, and take thy form from off my door!
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Those who gossip with you will gossip about you.
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Stupidity is a talent for misconception.
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As a poet and as a mathematician, he would reason well; as a mere mathematician, he could not have reasoned at all.
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Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before.
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I am above the weakness of seeking to establish a sequence of cause and effect, between the disaster and the atrocity.
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Art is to look at not to criticize.
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